Unslaved
A philosophical novel about modern captivity, burnout, fiat abstraction, technological mediation, and the recovery of sovereignty.
Unslaved is a novel about the systems that domesticate us, the lies that normalize it, and the difficult passage back toward truth.
At its center is Maya, an architect whose life begins to fracture under the weight of exhaustion, institutional disillusionment, and a growing sense that the world around her is not merely broken, but inverted.
What first appears as burnout slowly reveals itself as something deeper: grief for a life of meaning that could not materialize inside systems built on obedience, abstraction, and control.
As Maya moves through work, institutions, artificial intelligence, political ideology, money, family, memory, and truth, she begins to see that her collapse is not private weakness. It is a symptom of a civilization that has severed human beings from agency, consequence, value, consent, and being.
Unslaved begins with burnout.
It ends with the question of what it means to become human again.
Collector's Edition
This is the original release. Limited to 1,000 copies.
Each copy is signed, numbered, and embossed.
€49
A standard hardcover edition will follow later.
Publication Details
Title: Unslaved
Author: Philippe Wuyts
Publisher: Aletheia Editions
Format: Collector’s Edition hardcover, 244 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-918439-01-4
Publication year: 2026